PowaScripts Update: Kerberos Pre-authentication

After reading harmj0y blog post about “Roasting AS-REPs”, I have decided to update the Dump-User.ps1 script in order for it to report on users that don’t have Kerberos pre-authentication enabled. Running the updated version against a “in the wild” target yielded interesting results to say the least.

AnyConnect Elevation of Privileges, Part 2

In the previous part of this multi-part article, I explained how I reversed engineered one of the binaries of the Cisco AnyConnect (CAC) Secure Mobility Client. This allowed me to understand the header format of the network packets used in the Inter-Process Communication (IPC) mechanism. In this part, I will focus on doing a more dynamic analysis in order to understand what goes in the packet body.

AnyConnect Elevation of Privileges, Part 1

The Cisco AnyConnect (CAC) Secure Mobility Client doesn’t have the brightest security track record. CVE-2015-4211 and CVE-2015-6305 are only two out of the fourteen CVEs that have been assigned to it just in 2015. This spiked my curiosity and prompted me to confirm if Cisco had properly fixed the underlying issue of these vulnerabilities.

Active Directory Dump

During many penetration tests (or red versus blue team exercises), I have found myself with the need to investigate users, groups, computers and policies of a Windows domain. To do that, I have developed a series of PowerShell scripts that dump all that information from Active Directory into XML files.